“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.”

American writer and editor

Robert Adams Gottlieb was an American writer and editor. He served as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker. Gottlieb shaped some of the most influential publishing and magazine institutions in the United States. His career was centered on editing, and his name is associated with work in book publishing and magazine journalism.